Rep. Pablo Garcia blocking Cheap Medicine Bill.

[M.A.D.]

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NEXT: Cheap Energy Bill

[LytSlpr]

NEXT: Cheap Energy Bill

You're pushing it, hahaha!!!

But this is not far from happening. GMA might open it to foreigners especially they are at odds with the Lopezes. I wish the airline industry will follow suit so that they will shape up.

[giddyboy]

You're pushing it, hahaha!!!

But this is not far from happening. GMA might open it to foreigners especially they are at odds with the Lopezes. I wish the airline industry will follow suit so that they will shape up.

yeah right.
There's still a lot of lobbyists for that matter:

(1) Medicines: multi-national pharma firms could appeal to the House to stop the 'cheap medicine bill'. we already have the generic drugs bill, but somehow it did not drive med prices down significantly...

(2) Fuel & Oil: the big 3 (Caltex, Shell, Petron) are still perceived to be monopolizing fuel prices to their advantage and will undoubtedly exert any efforts to stop the repeal of the 'oil deregulation law'.

(3) Air transpo: Seair (owned by PAL..Lucio Tan) is blocking Cebu Pacific's plan to open flights to Boracay...
as of this time, PAL has the most expensive local airline tickets as compared to others.

[INFRACTION]

cheap medicines hmmm pull out investment mga big pharmaceutical companies... hmmm

[giddyboy]

cheap medicines hmmm pull out investment mga big pharmaceutical companies... hmmm

lagi, it's like David against Goliath...
he's Mr. Palengke, and i just hope he can pull this off big-time.

if he can, humot kau ni cya for the presidency come 2010. hehe

[LytSlpr]

cheap medicines hmmm pull out investment mga big pharmaceutical companies... hmmm

not necessarily, a market is still a market. if we have to import the medecines from other countries manufactured by these big pharma firms, it will still come out cheap.

[jntio]

i aprov na unta ang cheap med bill. bg help na kau na sa tanan

[giddyboy]

i aprov na unta ang cheap med bill. bg help na kau na sa tanan

approved na bay sa Congress on its final reading...next is concurrence sa Senate nlng. hapit na jud!!!

After its approval in the House, the bill will be sent to the Senate for concurrence, although some lawmakers are not hopeful it will be passed before Congress goes on a month-long recess for the holidays.

The bill seeks to increase the poor’s access to medicines by, among other things, allowing parallel importation of patented medicines and revising the Intellectual Property Code which provides protection for holders of medicine patents.

[baron]

^ I hope so. At least, the tedious process of passing a piece of legislation is almost finished. I just hope the two chambers of Congress will able to pass legislation in the nearest possible time. This has been one of the priority bills of the president because it will ultimately benefit the people.

It's a fact that at present, we have relatively high prices of medicine compared to our foreign counterparts. With the passage of this legislation, the people will be relieved of such burden.

[giddyboy]

^ I hope so. At least, the tedious process of passing a piece of legislation is almost finished. I just hope the two chambers of Congress will able to pass legislation in the nearest possible time. This has been one of the priority bills of the president because it will ultimately benefit the people.

It's a fact that at present, we have relatively high prices of medicine compared to our foreign counterparts. With the passage of this legislation, the people will be relieved of such burden.

mao ba? kang gloria diay ni? abi nako kang mr. palengke?

anyways, kng ma final na ni ang bill, daghan mga doctor ang maguol...nyahahaha